Not in our backyard – US bioweapons labs in Ukraine
On 11 March 2022, Lieutenant General, Igor Anatolevich Kirillov. Head of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection of Russian Troops, gave a brief about US sponsorship and involvement in scientific-research activities in Ukraine.
Less that three weeks earlier Russia recognised the independent states of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbas region directly after which the Russian military entered Ukraine to help protect citizens and and unite with Donbas armed forces in the war waged against them by Kiev in 2014.
One purpose of the briefing was to send a message to the west on the strength of Russian intelligence, and to demonstrate that actions taken by Vladimir Putin were not without foundation. The creeping expansion of western hegemony was getting too close for comfort to the Russian border.
Shortly after the start of the invasion documents were discovered which confirmed the…